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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Fraud email example:
From: "E- Lottery Online" <hondapromo@core.com>
Reply-To: ukonlinegaming1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:51:15 -0400
Subject: UK LOTTERY : Your Email Won =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A3480?=,152.00 GBP
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top" colspan="5"><strong><img alt="The National Lottery" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/clickthru/privacypolicy/htmlemail_privacy_top.gif" /></strong></td></tr><tr><td width="2" bgcolor="#000099"><br /><br /><br /><br />
</td><td width="10"><strong><img width="10" height="1" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" /></strong></td><td width="530" class="normal" style="line-height: 12pt;"><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong>Dear
Winner,
Your ref: 6525/07</strong></font></div><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br /><strong>The National Lottery is pleased to inform you that you emerged a winner of<br />£480,152.00 GBP in the last concluded National Lottery online draws on 24th July,2007.<br />However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to <br />different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. After this automated <br />computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of ten winners in the FIRST category for the THIRD prize. </strong></font></div><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong>Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be <br />transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, <br />verifications,validations and satisfactory report.</strong></font></div><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong>Fill in the information below and send it to the Lottery Fiduciary agent with the following email address.</strong><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Name:</strong></font></font><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Mrs Roxanne Green</strong></font></font><br /><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><font color="#0000ff"><strong>E-mail Address:<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><u>E-mail Address:- </u>webnotificationagent@yahoo.co.uk</span></strong></font></font></div><div> Telephone :<b><font size="2">+447024094094, +447024094157</font></b></div><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"> </font></div><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong>1.First Name:<br />2.Last Name:<br />3.Your Ref:<br />4.Address:<br />5.Country:</strong></font></div><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong>6.Telephone:<br />7.Occupation:<br />8.Age:<br />9.Preffered payment Mode:<br />(a) Cheque (b) Bank Transfer</strong> </font></div><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><br /><strong>Congratulations.</strong></font></div><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong></strong></font></div><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong><u>Sir. Richard K. Lloyd<br />Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme)</u></strong></font></div><div><font size="1" face="Verdana" color="#000000"><strong><u>The UK Online Lottery</u></strong></font></div></td><td width="9"><strong><img width="9" height="1" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" /></strong></td><td width="2" bgcolor="#000099"><br /><br /><br /><br />
</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" colspan="5"><strong><img src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/clickthru/privacypolicy/htmlemail_privacy_bottom.gif" /></strong></td></tr><tr><td height="30" colspan="5"><strong><img width="1" height="30" src="http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/i/s.gif" /></strong></td></tr></tbody>
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